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General

Melodious Warbler: Fairly large warbler, grey-green upperparts, yellow underparts, brighter yellow on throat. Plain yellow in front of eye, narrow white-yellow eye ring with hint of line behind eye. Medium, yellow-orange and grey bill, medium buff-brown legs. Medium length wings and tail. Immature like adult but duller, more white on underparts. Forages for a variety of insects, larvae, and spiders by picking prey off leaves and stems of bushes and trees.

Range and Habitat

Melodious Warbler: Found in southwest Europe and northwest Africa during the summer; winters in West Africa. A scarce but regular annual migrant in the UK where it has occurred in many regions, usually during spring and fall migration. The Melodious Warbler prefers forest edge, gardens, and other open woodland habitats.

Breeding and Nesting

Melodious Warbler: Four to six lavender eggs with a few black-brown speckles are laid in a large cup nest constructed with stems, twigs, grass, lichen, bark, and spider webs, and lined with fur or soft vegetation. The nest is built .5 to five metres above the ground in a forked branch of a tree, and the female incubates the eggs for 12 to 13 days.

Foraging and Feeding

Melodious Warbler: This fairly large warbler feeds on a variety of insects and their larvae, and spiders. It forages by moving through trees and bushes and picking prey items off of vegetation with its bill.

Vocalisation

Melodious Warbler: Song is a series of rapid warbles, nasal calls, and chattering notes. May include mimicry. Call is a series of "te-te-te-te" notes. Chatter and "tek" calls also given.

Similar Species

Melodious Warbler: Icterine Warbler has a very long primary projection, but otherwise is nearly identical. Wood Warbler has a dark eye line and yellow supercilium.

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters
of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus)
and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante
(2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42
(Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported
by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) was established in the mid-1990 s as a cooperative project among several federal agencies to improve and
expand upon taxonomic data (known as the NODC Taxonomic Code) maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA).

To find the ITIS page for a bird species go to the ITIS web site advanced search and report page at http://www.itis.gov/advanced_search.html.
You can enter the TSN or the common name of the bird. It will return the ITIS page for that bird. Another way to obtain the ITIS page is to use
the Google search engine. Enter the string ITIS followed by the taxonomic ID, for example "ITIS 178041" will return the page for the Allen's Hummingbird.